Moon for Sale

The poems in Richard Price''s Moon for Sale delight in linguistic play, turning over sound and sense with gleeful dexterity. But they are equally visually sensitive: Price''s lyricism speaks as much to a cinematic sensibility as to a poetic one, to Terrence Malick''s Tree of Life, to the carefully braided documentaries of Viera Cakányová, and to the elegiac filmscapes of Margaret Tait. In the shadow of a culture in which even the moon is up for auction, Moon for Sale records the decadence of our times by incorporating and repurposing that culture''s language. At the same time a haven of meaning is sought in the erotic, in the intimate transactions between bodies, that ''rush of unclevering'' which both simplifies and intensifies the world.